Strip-serving device.



F. S. ANABLE.

STRIP SERVING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED IuIII-I 23, 1915.

Y Ll .,'U Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

FREDERICK S. ANABLE, OF BBOOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 NATIONAL IBIN'DIN Gr MACHINE COMPANY,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK. v

STRIP-SERVING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

Application led June 23, 1915. Serial No. 35,9341.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, FREDERICK S. ANABLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Strip-Serving Devices, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to devices or apparatus for supplying strips of paper or the like employed for wrapping or binding packages, or for use as labels of any desired length, and has particular referenceto that type of apparatus employing a support for a coil of paper strip previously gummed and then dried, and having provisions for moistening the gum upon the strip as the latter is drawn from its coil. It is apparent that an ungummed strip of paper or the like may be employed, in which case the moistening device for the strip, suitably positioned with respect thereto, would contain an adhesive instead of water.

This application is in part a division of my co-pending application for strip serving device, Serial No. 449,320, tiled August 19, 1908, and in part is a continuation thereof.

In order that the principle of the invention maybe clearly understood, I have disclosed a single embodiment thereof in the accompanying drawing, wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation, partially in section, of the preferred embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view, partially in section, of the moistener shown in Fig. 1 and adjacent parts; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the moistener shown in Fig. 2.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, I have therein represented the strip support -at 1, it being of any suitable construction and being preferably a case wherein a roll of paper may be suitably supported and tensioned. Herein it is represented as mounted upon a base 2.

I contemplate the provision of means whereby strip moistening means acts to sever the strip and preferably to sever a predetermined length thereof, which length may, if desired, be varied. One form of my invention is herein shown. Upon the base 2 is represented a reservoir 3 having fixedly supported in opposite walls thereof an axle 4 having loosely mounted thereon a barrel 5. One end of a coil spring 6 is connected at 7 to the inner surface of the barrel and is connected to said aXle at 8, the construction being such that the barrel is rotated forwardly during the moistening operation and is returned by the spring 6 after thesevering operation. Mounted between flanges 9 of the barrel is a strip of wicking or other fibrous material 10.

Preferably sleeves 11 are provided to maintain the barrel in proper position. Adjustably mounted upon opposite faces of the barrel 5 are disks 12, 13 connected by a severing blade 14, which is suitably spaced from the barrel and if desired may be provided with openings to prevent undue disturbance of the water in the tank or reservoir during the rotation of the barrel. rIhe disk 13 is suitably guarded as represented in Fig. 1 and is circumferentially slotted, as indicated at 15, to receive a set screw 10, whereby the disks and blade 14 may be circumferentially adjusted, so that the blade 14 may be positioned when the moistener is at rest at any desired distance from the severing point. The barrel 5 is provided with a stop 17 adapted normally to contact with an overhanging lip 18 upon the tank or reservoir.

If, with the parts positioned as represented in Fig. 1, the strip'be drawn forwardly and be retained in close frictional engagement with the moistener, the barrel 5 will rotate therewith without slipping and will revolve the blade 14 into severing relation with the strip, thereby severing a predetermined length thereof. -If a shorter length than the indicated maximum be desired, it is necessary merely circumferentially to adjust the disks 12, 13 in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 1, thereby positioning the bla-de 14 when at rest nearer the strip severing point. If desired, I may employ any suitable means acting when the strip is drawn upon to force the strip into tight frictional engagement with the surface of the moistener, thus insuring unison in movement of the strip and the moistener, and preventing slipping therebetween. For this purpose, I may employ a lever or levers carrying at one end a cross bar adapted to be engaged by the strip when drawn upon, and at the otherk end a cross bar adapted tobe projected by movement of the levers against the surface of the moistener, such as shown in my Patent No. 897,510,

kSeptember 1, 1908. If desired, one or both of such cross bars may be formed as an anti-frictional roll or sleeve.

So far as I am aware, I am the first to provide strip severing means carried by a moistener and particularly by a movable moistener, andV desire to claim the same broadly. I am also the first so far as I am aware to provide means operated by the moistener to sever a. predetermined or variable length of strip, and desireto claim the same broadly. Y

Devices have heretofore been proposed for severing predetermined lengths of strip but requiring generally considerable complication of parts. My inventionis one of marked simplicity and fevv parts, and I V.may readily adjust or alter the same so as to sever different lengths of strips within Wide limits, inasmuch as the moistener barrel may be of any suitable or desired diameter.

I-Iaving thus described one illustrative embodiment of my invention, I desire it to be understood that although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being Vset forthin the following claims.

Claims. 1. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a moistener, and strip severl ing means carried by said moistener.

2. AV strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener and a severing blade carried by said moistener.

3. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a moistener, and strip severing means carried by the moistener and operated by strip moistening movement to sever the strip.

4;. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, a severing blade carried by said moistener and movable through the reservoir of the moistener into strip severing relation.

5. A strip servingv device comprising a lstrip support, a movable moistener, and

means operated by and movable With the moistener to sever a predetermined length of strip. v

6. A VstripV serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, yand an adjustableV severing blade carried by said moistener.

7. A strip Serving device comprising a strip support, a movable moistener, means operated by and movable With said moistener to sever a predetermined length of trigthand means to vary said predetermined 8. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a moistener, the surface whereof travels with the strip during service draft thereon, and asevering blade carried by the moistener and movable into strip severing relation. t

9. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a moistener having a surface movable With the strip during draft thereon, and a severing blade movable with said moistener into severing relation to the strip. 10. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a moistener having a surface movable with the strip during draft thereon, a severing blade movable with said moistener into severing relation to the strip, and means to adjust the position of said blade.

11. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a moistener having a surface adapted to travel with the strip during the service draft thereon, a severing blade carried by said moistener, and spring means to move said moistener in a direction opposed tothe direction of service draft upon the strip.

12. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, and a severing blade carried by said moistener and circuinferentiallv adjusted thereabout.

13. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener circumferentially movable With the strip, spring means to move the moistener in the opposite direction, and strip severing means carried by the moistener.

14. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, a reservoir wherein the same is mounted, and a severing blade carried by said moistener and movable through the contents of the reservoir in the strip severing relation.

15. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, means to guide the strip into nioistening L relation thereto, and means carried by the moistener to sever a predetermined length of strip.

16. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, means to guide the strip into moistening relation thereto, and an adjustable severing device carried by said moistener and movable in the serving operation into strip severing relation.

17. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, spring means to rotate the moistener in one direction, limiting means for said spring actuated movement of the moistener, and means synchronized in movement with the moistener to effect strip severance.

18. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a. rotary moistener, spring means to rotate the moistener in one direction, and strip severing means synchronized inV movement With the moistener to sever the strip.

1 9. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, spring means. to rotate the moistener in one direction, strip severing means synchronized in movement with the moistener to sever the strip, and means to adjust said severing means, thereby to effect the severance of a predetermined, variable length of strip.

20. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener adapted to be moved in one direction by draft upon the strip, a spring to rotate said moistener in the opposite direction, and a strip severer carried by the moistener.

21. A strip serving device comprisinga strip support, a moistener 10 and severing means 1A carried by the moistener.

22. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener 10, and severing means 14 mounted thereon and rotatable therewith.

23. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener 10, a severing blade 1A mounted on said moistener, and means 15, 1G to vary the position of said severing blade upon the moistener.

241. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a rotary moistener, means to rotate the moistener in one direction, and strip severing means movable With the moistener into severing relation With the strip.

In testimony whereof, l have signed my name to this speciiication, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK S. ANABLE.

Witnesses:

ROBERT H. KAMMLER, F. IRENE CHANDLER.

Copies of this patent may he obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

